Category: News
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New quantitative method for dental wear analysis of small mammals
New article published by Bañuls-Cardona, S., Blasco, R., Rosell, J., Rufà, A., Vallverdú, J. & Rivals, F. in Scientific Reports. The application of dental wear study to murids has always been ruled out because of their omnivorous diet, which does not leave significant wear on the dentition. Nevertheless, in our work we select Apodemus sylvaticus (wood mouse) as the…
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Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique
New article published by Lüdecke T., Leichliter J. N., Aldeias V., Bamford M.K., Biro D., Braun D.R., Capelli C., Cybulski, J. Duprey N.N., Ferreira da Silva M.J., Foreman A.D, Habermann J.H., Haug G.H., Martínez F.I, Mathe J., Mulch A., Sigman D.M., Vonhof H., Bobe R., Carvalho S. & Martinez-Garcia, A., in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.…
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Hunter-gatherer environments at the Late Pleistocene sites of Mwanganda’s Village and Bruce, northern Malawi
New article published by Schilt, F., Miller, C.E., Wright, D.K., Mentzer, S.M., Mercader, J., Moss, P., Choi J.-H., Siljedal, G., Clark, S., Mwambwiga, A., Thomas, K., Barbieri, A., Kalibam, P., Gomani-Chindebvu E., Thompson, J.C., in Quaternary Science Reviews. Mwanganda’s Village (MGD) and Bruce (BRU) are two open-air site complexes in northern Malawi with deposits dating to…
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The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal)
New article published by Barbieri, A., Regala, F. T., Cascalheira, J., & Bicho, N., in Archaeological Prospection. Until recently, evidence of Neanderthal cave use in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) came only from the site of Ibn Ammar. Over the last couple of years, archaeological excavations inside another cave, Gruta da Companheira, yielded Mousterian stone tools associated…
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Post-LGM environments and foragers on the move: New data from the lower Altmühl Valley (Franconian Jura, SE Germany)
New article published by Barbieri, A., Maier, A., Lauer, T., Mischka, C., Hattermann, M., & Uthmeier, T., in Journal of Human Evolution. After the Last Glacial Maximum, the Swabian and Franconian Jura (in SW and SE Germany, respectively) were repopulated by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers within the same communication network. However, while the Magdalenian settlement of the…
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The Becoming of a Prehistoric Landscape: Palaeolithic Occupations and Geomorphological Processes at Lojanik (Serbia)
New article published by Lesage, C.; Barbieri, A.; Galfi, J.; Jovanović, D.; Bogosavljević Petrović, V in Land. Accomplishing long-term plans to harvest and modify natural resources has been a crucial skill for the survival of our species since early Prehistory. Research on this first step of production mostly focuses on the provenience study of lithic…
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Speciated mechanism in Quaternary cervids (Cervus and Capreolus) on both sides of the Pyrenees: a multidisciplinary approach
New article published by Antigone Uzunidis, Anna Rufà, Ruth Blasco, Jordi Rosell, Jean-Philip Brugal, Pierre-Jean Texier & Florent Rivals in Scientific Reports. Cervids, and especially the red deer Cervus elaphus, are among the most regularly and abundantly recorded ungulates in Pleistocene/Paleolithic bone assemblages. Numerous Pleistocene or Holocene subspecies have been described, reinforcing their status as essential…
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Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games
New article published by Mielke A & Carvalho S. in PeerJ . Social play is ubiquitous in the development of many animal species and involves players adapting actions flexibly to their own previous actions and partner responses. Play differs from other behavioural contexts for which fine-scale analyses of action sequences are available, such as tool use…
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The role of artificial contact materials in experimental use-wear studies: A controlled proxy to understand use-wear polish formation
New article published by Schunk, L., Gneisinger, W., Calandra, I., & Marreiros, J., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Traceological studies aim at the recognition and the identification of use-wear traces on artefacts to gain a functional interpretation of past human technologies. However, the development of use-wear traces is known to be dependent on different…
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From Veld to Coast: Towards an Understanding of the Diverse Landscapes’ Uses by Past Foragers in Southern Africa
New article published by Aurore Val & Benjamin Collins, in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. In this brief contribution, we outline the aims of a collection entitled “From veld to coast: towards an understanding of the diverse landscapes’ uses by past foragers in southern Africa,” and we define its chronological, geographic and thematic framework. More info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00124-w